. 1 Sept. 1910 in Berens River, Man
manager (1862–80), vice-president (1880–1901), and president (1901–5) of the Montreal Sailors’ Institute. His particular zeal for this work came from his own experience with shipwreck as a young man on his
River settlement (Man.) wrongly interpreted his presence as an appointment to the prospective council, the department transferred him to an Ontario position. Dissatisfied, he left the civil service
, especially for a man of Bertram’s stature. In return for the backing of the Herald he was appointed a federal inspector of fisheries in 1883, and remained one until his death. As a respected local
River expeditionary force under Colonel Garnet Joseph Wolseley* and on 14 May left for the Red River settlement (Man.) with No
described as being by nature a serious-minded, determined-looking man, “even on the Sabbath he could not disguise a friendly twinkle in his eye.” When Alexander retired from the company in 1868, Duncan
Ellen Hamilton in Palestine (Gladstone), Man., and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 14 Nov. 1903 in Neepawa, Man.
John
need was for ministers who would be effective on the frontier. The successful minister, he summarized, “must commend himself to [the people] as a man and a Christian. With them the office and
. An obituary in the Calgary Herald described him as “a man of a kindly and generous disposition, who never lost a friend or made an enemy
(Man.).
Young’s appointment marked the beginnings of an important shift in Methodist missionary operations in the west, from an emphasis on Indian
, Chelsea (London), being sent to the Red River settlement (Man.) in 1848 under the command of Major William Bletterman Caldwell
Canada in 1855. He immediately acquired a taste for Conservative politics and campaigned for Isaac Buchanan* in Hamilton. A young man of promise
insurance premiums. Consultation with the local board of insurance underwriters to determine ways of lowering rates had resulted in council’s decision in 1875 to install an electrical alarm system and to man
. The development of the Pacific salmon-canning industry: a grown man’s game, ed. Dianne Newell (Montreal and Kingston, Ont., 1989). R. E. Gosnell, A history o[f
, an office he held until January 1901. He played an active role in standing committees of the Senate and often chaired the committee of the whole. Senator Donald McMillan said he was a “man of quick
, who remembered the bishop as a “Good” and “esteemed” man of their Glengarry Scottish community.
Mark McGowan
. between 1809 and 1816 near Split Lake (Man.) of Swampy Cree and British descent; m. 1835 Sarah
.
Historians, though they have not ignored frontiersmen in Graves’s age group, have tended to focus attention on younger settlers. Graves typifies the middle-aged man who gained success as an agricultural
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